Make your very favourite batch of chocolate cupcakes! These ones baked so well, the tops came out perfectly round! I never get them looking quite this good... Need more practice.

Step 2: 7 Minute Frosting

This is the chocolate cupcakes best friend. Its sweet and sticky and yet still fancy.

Step 3: Combine steps 1 and 2

YUM!

I piped on the frosting using a ziplock bag that had a quater inch of the corner cut off.

Optional Step 4:

Allow the frosting to set in the fridge for half and hour and then carefully dip the cupcakes in melted chocolate. Chill cupcakes for an additional 20 minutes in the fridge. Unfortunately I don't have any photos of this but the cupcakes tasted amazing!

I have never decorated cookies using royal icing. So i thought i'd give it a try. 156 tiny hands with teeny tiny iron rings later... I had this brain wave while planning the grad... wouldn't each place setting look cute with a little hand cookie with an iron ring. So I got my mom started cutting out hands (there are a few left hands in there as well!) and we set to work! I used stiff consistency royal icing for the borders and the runny consistency for the filling. If you look really closely you can see that I even glittered every single ring. All 156 turned out really well and they looked so good at everyones place setting! Needless to say i now know how to decorate a cookie with royal icing. It is really easy to do, but i'd start with a batch of 12... not 156.